Linda Blumberg, Ph.D.

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Dr. Linda Blumberg is an economist and Institute fellow in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute. She is an expert on private health insurance (employer and nongroup), health care financing, and health system reform. Her recent work includes extensive research related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA); in particular, providing technical assistance to states, tracking policy decision-making and implementation at the state and federal levels, and interpreting and analyzing the implications of particular policies. Examples of her work include analyses of the implications of congressional proposals to repeal and replace the ACA or alternatively expand upon it, delineation of strategies to fix problems associated with the ACA, estimation of the cost and coverage potential of public option proposals, analyses of the implications of the California v. Texas and King v. Burwell Supreme Court cases, and several studies of competition in ACA Marketplaces. In addition, Dr. Blumberg led the quantitative analysis supporting the development of a “Road Map to Universal Coverage” in Massachusetts, a project with her Urban colleagues that informed that state’s comprehensive health reforms in 2006.

Dr. Blumberg has testified frequently before Congress and is quoted in major media outlets on health reform topics. She has served on the Cancer Policy Institute’s advisory board and the Health Affairs editorial board. From 1993 through 1994, she was a health policy adviser to the Clinton administration during its health care reform effort, and she was a 1996 Ian Axford Fellow in Public Policy.

Linda Blumberg received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.